T/F: Gus should be fired for going 1/4 against LSU, UGA, UF, UA

I'm just wondering where the line is for some folks.

0/4 imo would get a pink slip because you know he's fricked next year too. 1/4 would be pushing it but I'd fire him if there was a good candidate interested.

It's a fair question. Tell a coach you're guaranteed a path to the playoff every year.... You just have to beat LSU, UGA, and UA. That is brutal.

I don’t think he is worth what we are paying him, but I don’t think we fire him for going 3-3 against top 25 teams or even 2-4. I can’t name anybody else available who is worth paying Gus’s buyout plus a new salary.

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Hell, just win 2 outta 3 and you're in the playoff. *As long as you don't shite the bed in the SEC Championship*

We have to beat LSU and Alabama now to make it and hope they also drop a game if we lose to UGA.

We pretty much have to go 3/3 now.

Eta:. I thought about this more. LSU needs to lose to UF and beat Alabama. That's the most feasible way for us to win 2/3 and go to Atlanta and still lose to UGA.

Answer the question.

He stays if we lose all 4. Buyout remains a lot of money and there are no prime candidates out there that would come to Auburn, and, right now, they'd do just as good as Gus. No one except a really risky up n comer would come here right now. Only person I could see saying yes is Kiffin, and that's futile.

Gus stays and we hope he can keep recruiting only behind the titans, maybe finding a transfer/JUCO gem every few years, put us in the SEC title game once every five years, and in contention for a natty once every ten. We aren't tOSU, Bama, Clemson, Oklahoma, etc. We just aren't. We're a top 20 team but not a top 5 team. Historically as well. And we will never recruit like they can.

Gus's biggest concern needs to be recruiting OL where we've been way below avg. I bet if our OL were all high 4*s right now, we would've blown them out today and have been a me to run like 2013. Declining OL talent has been his biggest problem since he's been head coach, bigly.

Just wish he would add a few plays to the playbook: throw short over the middle to the slot on drags, RB dumps, recruit a 6'6 TE safety valve like Notre Dame has. It's what young Bo needs to get comfortable when the bubbles are covered, and always throwing out far towards the numbers and slow developing deep routes way past the sticks with DL closing in is tough against a good D. He needs quick passes that aren't way the frick by the sidelines or bubbles.

Sidebar: Thinking tonight, I think Gus is bad on the road in loud stadiums because the offense can't get his play audibles communicated in time after they hurry up to the LOS and Gus/Dilly read the defense and signal it in. Just hit me. It'll be a problem in Red Stick.

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We aren’t tOSU, Bama, Clemson, Oklahoma, etc. We just aren’t. We’re a top 20 team but not a top 5 team.

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That hurt to read, but it’s not wrong. Counterpoint - even Clemson wasn’t Clemson not so long ago. Took Dabo several years to build that program. And he has the luxury of coasting through the regular season in the ACC.

To answer OP question, 1/4 won’t get him fired. That’s a 9-3 season with a true freshman QB. It’ll upset factions of the fan base, but unless this season goes full blown 2012, I don’t see Gus going anywhere.